Defying intense
pressure from the international community, the government executed eight death
row prisoners early on Wednesday [April 29] on Nusakambangan prison island near
Cilacap in Central Java. "We've
carried out the executions," said an Attorney General’s Office (AGO)
official, talking to the press on condition of anonymity.

Mary Jane
Fiesta Veloso of the Philippines was spared after a woman who allegedly
recruited her to act as a drug courier gave himself up to police in the
Philippines on Tuesday.

AGO spokesman
Tony Spontana said the government had agreed to the final requests fielded by
two Australian death-row convicts for their bodies to be flown to Australia for
burial.

A Cilacap
Police officer said that after the executions, prayers were said for each
person according to their respective religion. "The executions went well,
without any disruptions," he said.

The AGO stated
that the executions had been carried out after it had heard all eight convicts’
final requests.

The execution
was the second round after the first was carried out on Jan. 18, during which
six inmates from Indonesia, the Netherlands, Brazil, Nigeria, Vietnam and
Malawi were killed by firing squad. (ren)

Mary Jane
Veloso, was spared after someone suspected of recruiting her and tricking her
into carrying drugs to Indonesia turned herself in to authorities in the
Philippines, MetroTV and the Jakarta Post reported. File photo

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